When It Rains, It Pours.

I can’t watch my news’ shows because our satellite dish doesn’t work when it rains. My 4yo thought it would be fun to wipe my dry-erase calendar clean. I write things down so I don’t HAVE to remember. The Hubs just got home from work and said he thinks the transmission in his car is going out. “Just a few thousand dollars or so.”

I’m in complete denial about the car. Even though The Hubs knows cars and I… Well, I don’t. I’m still hoping that it’s something temperamental. Cars can be temperamental, can’t they? Maybe it doesn’t like the rain.

Deploy-Schmoy The good news is that the on-again, off-again deployment appears to be absolutely, for sure, without a doubt, off. At least for now. I am telling myself it is good news, even though it’s really just a delay of the inevitable, because I harbor no illusion that his number will not come up. And now it looks like it will come up sometime next year, our last year in Ohio. He got back from his last deployment just a few months before our last PCS, and it sucked rocks. I am not eager for a replay, especially with a house to put up for sale this time around.

You may think that all deployments are created equal, but they’re not. The one he was pegged for this January was a good one — as far as deployments go. Now it feels like his number’s back in the basket and could get drawn again for anything. Besides that, with deployments come financial perks! In my mind I was already spinning and weaving ideas of how those dollars would go toward our debt snowball and give us a real good start on our emergency fund. Not to mention we really, really, need a new mattress, a new laptop, a new desktop, for that matter…

And a new car? I beg to differ. I refuse to believe it.

Buy the way, this is Hubs’ car, not to be confused with the van we just put some $2000 into a month or so ago. Hubs’ car, at least, is paid off…

Remember Dave? In other, sort-of-related news… Remember the couple we went with to see Dave in Indianapolis? They thoroughly enjoyed themselves — drank themselves some of that kool-aid, so to speak. They’re even one-up on us and looked up one of Dave’s financial ELPs (Endorsed Local Providers) and are meeting with him this weekend. They are a military couple as well, and he is deploying next month, for a year. They’re going to cash in their whole life insurance; sell his (paid-off) car before he leaves; they’re even stopping their retirement contributions so they can go full-force on their snowball.

I am so excited for them. I just hope their momentum sustains them through this deployment and carries on through whatever else comes up. Because come up it will. We seem to be proof of that.